Sentence examples for for self-interest from inspiring English sources
Liberals are for cooperation and joint effort; conservatives are for self-interest and selfishness.
Too often, the moral rhetoric of American diplomacy has seemed to Europe a cover for self-interest.
The Internet, the phones, they've brought attention to the society that is being used for self-interest".
It is true, as Lemann suggests, that governments and groups have traditionally invoked morality as a cover for self-interest.
The colonists had the best of it in these continuous quarrels, for self-interest gave them more persistence and skill.
Johnson, he said, "did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many... have made a cloak for self-interest".
Still, how do we call multinational corporations--owned by a relative few and built and incentivized for self-interest--to global accountability with a focus on the common good?
If not for altruism, then for enlightened self-interest.
And yes, for all the talk of principle, many Tories might just be voting for electoral self-interest rather than an enthusiasm for improving democracy.
The truth is that the Paris deal was a triumph of American leadership — not only for the future of the planet but for American self-interest.
